Employment Law News from the EEOC

• Thursday, January 16, 2025
  MINNEAPOLIS – TKO Construction Services, a staffing company that provides temporary employees for commercial, residential, restoration, heavy industrial and energy construction companies, will pay $300,000 and provide other equitable relief to settle a discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/tko-construction-services-pay-300000-settle-eeoc-sex-race-and-age-discrimination-lawsuit

 

• Thursday, January 16, 2025
  NEW YORK – Federal Express Corporation, doing business as FedEx Express, violated federal law when it failed to accommodate several dispatchers’ requests to continue working from home and demanded the dispatchers’ immediate return to its downtown Manhattan office, effectively forcing at least one into retirement, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeoc-sues-fedex-disability-discrimination-0

 

• Wednesday, January 15, 2025
  CASPER, Wyo. – Waller’s Trucking Company, Inc., a family-owned Wyoming trucking company, will pay $124,000 and provide other relief to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/wyoming-trucking-company-pay-124000-eeoc-sexual-harassment-lawsuit

 

• Tuesday, January 14, 2025
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  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/christopher-green-appointed-director-eeocs-san-francisco-district

 

• Monday, January 13, 2025
  MIAMI – Kane’s Furniture, LLC, a Florida-based furniture retail company, will pay $1,482,748.00 in monetary relief and provide significant equitable relief to settle a federal class sex discrimination lawsuit, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/kanes-furniture-pay-nearly-15-million-eeoc-sex-discrimination-lawsuit

 

• Monday, January 13, 2025
  WASHINGTON – Northern Virginia Surgery Center, LLC (NVSC), which operates an outpatient surgery center, will pay $50,000 and provide programmatic relief to resolve a disability and age discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/northern-virginia-surgery-center-pays-50000-eeoc-disability-and-age-discrimination-lawsuit

 

• Wednesday, January 8, 2025
  DENVER – Houston-based Noble Energy, Inc. will implement a series of anti-discrimination measures to conciliate age discrimination allegations by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.The agency charged that Noble Energy practiced discriminatory discharge and layoff practices based on age. The agency’s investigation revealed the company conducted certain workforce reductions which disproportionately impacted employees aged 40 and older.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/noble-energy-settles-eeoc-age-discrimination-charge

 

• Tuesday, January 7, 2025
  WASHINGTON – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today released a report titled, “Asian Americans in the Federal Sector.” The report finds that in fiscal year 2020 Asian Americans were one of the largest growing populations in the United States. Asian American workers were employed in the federal sector at a rate that exceeded their representation in the civilian labor force (CLF).
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeoc-research-finds-improved-asian-american-representation-underrepresentation-federal

 

• Monday, January 6, 2025
  DENVER — United Airlines, Inc. a Delaware corporation with a major hub at Denver International Airport, will pay $99,000 and provide other relief to settle a federal lawsuit for a hostile work environment based on race and national origin, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today. 
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/united-airlines-pay-99000-eeoc-discrimination-case

 

• Friday, January 3, 2025
  MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Prestigious Placement, Inc., and Prosero, Inc., will pay $215,000 and furnish other relief to settle a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.According to the lawsuit, a male lead employed by Prosero subjected female employees placed by Prestigious Placement to unwelcome sexual comments. When two of the female employees complained to supervisors, they were ignored. Later, Prosero terminated the employees for alleged performance issues, according to the EEOC.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/prosero-management-and-prestigious-placement-pay-215000-eeoc-harassment-and-retaliation

 

• Thursday, January 2, 2025
  WASHINGTON – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today released a report titled, “The Impact of Age on the Gender Pay Gap in the Federal Sector.” The EEOC examined data on over two million federal employees to assess whether the gender pay gap differs for people under age 40 compared to people age 40 and over (who are protected from age discrimination by federal law).
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeoc-research-finds-gender-pay-gap-was-larger-among-federal-employees-age-40-and-over

 

• Thursday, December 26, 2024
  RALEIGH, N.C.  – Rex Healthcare, Inc., a private, non-profit healthcare provider located in Raleigh, North Carolina, violated federal law when it failed to accommodate an employee’s religious beliefs and fired her for failing to receive a COVID-19 vaccination, according to a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeoc-sues-rex-healthcare-inc-religious-discrimination

 

• Tuesday, December 24, 2024
  WASHINGTON – Equinox Holdings, Inc. (Equinox), which owns and operates fitness facilities and gyms nationwide, illegally discriminated against a woman who suffers from endometriosis on the basis of disability and sex when it failed to hire her as a front desk associate at its sports club in Washington because of her “monthly cycle” and potential need for a reasonable accommodation, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charged in a lawsuit filed today. The agency also alleged Equinox did not accommodate her disability during the job application process.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeoc-sues-equinox-holdings-inc-disability-and-sex-discrimination

 

• Friday, December 20, 2024
  TAMPA, Fla. – Elon Property Management LLC (Elon), a property management company based in Lakewood, New Jersey, violated federal law by retaliating against an employee for utilizing disability leave and maintaining a policy that screened out and discriminated against a class of employees with disabilities, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeoc-sues-elon-property-management-disability-discrimination-florida

 

• Friday, December 20, 2024
  ATLANTA – Lubin Logistics Company, which operates as a small package delivery contractor for the international shipping brand FedEx, will pay $20,000 and take remedial measures to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the federal agency announced today.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/lubin-logistics-pay-20000-and-provide-remedial-measures-eeoc-disability-discrimination

 

• Friday, December 20, 2024
  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Shelby Baptist Medical Center and its operating companies will pay $60,000 and provide other injunctive relief to settle claims of disability discrimination and retaliation in a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/shelby-baptist-medical-center-pay-60000-eeoc-disability-discrimination-and-retaliation

 

• Friday, December 20, 2024
  NORFOLK, Va. – Value Unlimited, Inc., doing business as ChowCall, a food delivery service in Norfolk, Virginia, violated the law by refusing to comply with the terms of a conciliation agreement, according to a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeoc-sues-chowcall-breaching-conciliation-agreement

 

• Thursday, December 19, 2024
  WASHINGTON – A new fact sheet titled “Wearables in the Workplace: The Use of Wearables and Other Monitoring Technology Under Federal Employment Discrimination Laws,” released today by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) addresses use of wearable technologies in the nation’s workplaces. These technologies can be used to track various physical factors, such as an employee’s location, heart rate, electrical brain activity, or fatigue.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeoc-highlights-how-wearable-technologies-may-implicate-employment-discrimination-laws

 

• Wednesday, December 18, 2024
  WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released new information for health care providers to help their patients obtain pregnancy and childbirth-related accommodations in the workplace under the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA).
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeoc-releases-pwfa-information-health-care-providers

 

• Wednesday, December 18, 2024
  PHOENIX — Bell Road Tire and Auto LLC, doing business as Big O Tires, a tire company in Glendale, Arizona, will pay $64,500 and implement corrective measures to settle a disability discrimination case,  the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/bell-road-tire-pay-64500-eeoc-disability-discrimination-resolution